Dawny

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of dawn.

    "His was not the alabaster brow framed in glowing, dawny light which all these years had haunted her"

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"His was not the alabaster brow framed in glowing, dawny light which all these years had haunted her"

Etymology

From dawn + -y.

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